I’ve been behind the curve when it comes to mobile phone technology, so this may be commonplace for many of you, but when I was driving to pick up DaughterGeeding at a friend’s house my phone alerted me to a car accident about five miles away in the direction I was heading, which game me plenty of time to find a detour. I didn’t have the destination programmed in my phone, so it didn’t know where I was heading, but it was just telling me what was ahead on the road I was on.
Some of you may have wondered why your comment doesn’t appear immediately. That’s because due to a lot of spam, I have certain filters set up and your comment may end up in my “Needs Approval” or “Spam” list, so please don’t think I’m trying to slight or hush you. Some of the biggies that will trigger the filter are anything relating to pharmaceuticals, vulgarity, or anything relating to the Ice Capades.
I’m not a foreign policy expert and I only know a few things about the recently negotiated nuclear deal with Iran that needs approval by Congress. But I do know that I see one certain commercial at least five times a day that paints a nightmarish picture of the deal if it’s approved and it asks to contact our congressional representatives to not approve it. I bet that commercial and others are having effect as I saw a news story state that a majority of Americans want the deal rejected.
Obama: ‘I think if I ran again I could win’ – I’m going to file this CNN article under click bait and misleading title. This quip from Obama came as he critiquing some African leaders’ reluctance to turn over power and stated he’s barred from running again. The article title leads the reader to believe he may have some sort of power trip and then it goes on to talk about his other critiques. And besides, I’m sure every second term president thinks he could win a third term (LBJ might be the exception), it’s part of their type-A personality.
This other CNN article talks about how Trump would like Sarah Palin to serve in a Trump Administration cabinet post, but I was more surprised to learn about Mama Grizzly Radio, “a station that offers 24-hour news about Palin and issues related to her.”
I knew the U.S. had many overseas military bases, but I had no idea until I read this article – “BRAC, however, does not apply to the more than 700 United States bases overseas, including 174 in Germany, 113 in Japan and 83 in South Korea, as well as hundreds more in some 70 countries from Aruba to Kenya to Thailand.” Before reading that article, if I were to guess the number of military bases, I’d probably say somewhere between a hundred and a hundred-and-fifty.
Here’s a nice chart that lists vitamins and what foods have them.
‘Game of Thrones’ humor – The girl who played Shireen Baratheon had a funny tweet.
Buzzfeed – This Is How Doctors Want To Die – What care do doctors want to have when they reach the end of their lives? – This sentence might just some the whole thing up, “So much of what we do does prolong death, and prolongs pain.”
In this GIF, you’ll see an orca bait a bird into picking up a fish and then the orca chomping on said bird.
Yesterday I learned that Diane Lane’s mother was October 1957 Playmate of the Month, and I had no idea she (Diane, not her mother) was in The Outsiders. I guess when a film has Rob Lowe, Emilio Estevez, Matt Dillon, Tom Cruise, Patrick Swayze, and Ralph Macchio, it’s easy to overlook her. Per IMDB, Lane was asked during filming to play Lana in ‘Risky Business’, but her father said there’s no way in hell she was going to be a hooker in his movie.
One more bit of trivia from The Outsiders – Out of the main cast, all the kids were in their late teens, the exceptions being Patrick Swayze, who was 31, and Ralph Macchio, who was 21.
A postal employee in Utah befriended a 12-year-old boy who loved to read. The kid asked for more junk mail to read because he couldn’t afford a bus pass to the library, and that’s when the postal worker made a Facebook post which went viral.
If you are a Bank of America credit or debit card holder, you can get free admission to the Perot Museum in Dallas or the Fort Worth Museum of Science and History this weekend. For you non-DFW folks, you can find your local free admission museum here.
What is the marketing budget for FarmersOnly.com? Those commercials come on nonstop.
DaughterGeeding has never been to Build A Bear, but she’s aware of the concept. Yesterday she wanted to make her own version. It started with just a sign on the door announcing her new business, then her finding some left over material her mother let her use. Next thing you know she’s tracing bears, cutting them out, and asking us to use a stapler to piece them together. It’s safe to say we no longer have any cotton balls left in the house.
Apparently the new Vacation movie’s plot has the family visiting Plano, and the folks at Guidelive took exception to the mistakes and how the city was portrayed. By now you’ve seen the commercial or trailer where they think they are bathing in hot springs only to find out they are in raw sewage – that location is supposedly in Plano. I’m curious as to how the idea of Plano landed in the movie.
Key and Peele did a SportsCenter type sketch on what it would be like if teachers were treated like professional athletes.
Football fans in the New England area seem to be reacting quite rationally with the upheld Tom Brady suspension, and I wish there was a specific typeface to show sarcasm.
Twiggy the water skiing squirrel is coming to Dallas this weekend. Specifically, he’ll be at Sausagefest.
I bet loyal reader RPM already knows the answer – Why is the US still using a Nazi tall ship? – The Eagle was built by the Nazis and fought for Hitler in World War Two – so how did a tall ship that once flew the swastika end up as a training vessel for all new recruits to the US Coast Guard?
I did know it was built by the Germans, but I'd never heard that story. She's a beautiful ship.
Pretty sure Farmers Only buys BTA (Best Time Available). It's cheaper than a primetime ad but you can still get primetime if the space is unsold. However, it's a double edged sword. If the schedule is full you wind up running late night at a rate higher than regular late night.
This President thinks he could win a third term? Apparently he's 'chooming' again.
I'm going to take the opposite tack and say that by the end of two terms, most POTUS are worn out and usually in a ratings slump. Post-FDR, I'd posit that only W. J. Clinton could've easily skated to a third term (just before the tech-bubble burst), Eisenhower and Reagan possibly could've won another round (although Iran-Contra would likely have weighed on the latter).
Mind you, I didn't and wouldn't have voted for WJC, but he has had unsurpassed skill/charm at bamboozling the American population. If Bill could run today, they could cancel the elections, as it would be no contest. His wife, however, possesses the charisma of a pit bull and the face of Roseanne Barr, with a track record that borrowed its theme from the recent Amy Schumer movie title. I have reservations about whether she will ultimately even receive her party's nomination. 2016 could be the year for a relatively unknown putz like James Earl Carter Jr. to materialize and upset the apple cart.
I've been wondering why the anti-Iran deal commercial doesn't identify its sponsor. I'm guessing it's in someway funded by Israel.
Former U.N. ambassador John Bolton wrote an Op-ed in today's DMN arguing for a preemptive attack on Iran. For a guy who got out of service in Vietnam, he sure does love going to war.
A famous quote from his Yale 25th reunion book, "I confess I had no desire to die in a Southeast Asian rice paddy. I considered the war in Vietnam already lost."
In your post about "The Outsiders" you forgot to list the actor who actually received top billing for the film…Ponyboy himself, C. Thomas Howell. Don't you think he's got to be wondering how all those other actors, including Diane Lane, went on to such greater fame than he did? Perhaps it's because he starred in the regrettable film "Soul Man", which I've heard was the real inspiration for The Rachel Dolezal Story…No? Too soon?
I did know it was built by the Germans, but I'd never heard that story. She's a beautiful ship.
Pretty sure Farmers Only buys BTA (Best Time Available). It's cheaper than a primetime ad but you can still get primetime if the space is unsold. However, it's a double edged sword. If the schedule is full you wind up running late night at a rate higher than regular late night.
This President thinks he could win a third term? Apparently he's 'chooming' again.
I'm going to take the opposite tack and say that by the end of two terms, most POTUS are worn out and usually in a ratings slump. Post-FDR, I'd posit that only W. J. Clinton could've easily skated to a third term (just before the tech-bubble burst), Eisenhower and Reagan possibly could've won another round (although Iran-Contra would likely have weighed on the latter).
Mind you, I didn't and wouldn't have voted for WJC, but he has had unsurpassed skill/charm at bamboozling the American population. If Bill could run today, they could cancel the elections, as it would be no contest. His wife, however, possesses the charisma of a pit bull and the face of Roseanne Barr, with a track record that borrowed its theme from the recent Amy Schumer movie title. I have reservations about whether she will ultimately even receive her party's nomination. 2016 could be the year for a relatively unknown putz like James Earl Carter Jr. to materialize and upset the apple cart.
OK, that's my punditry for the day…
W put his hand on her shoulder, but where's Bill's hand?
I've been wondering why the anti-Iran deal commercial doesn't identify its sponsor. I'm guessing it's in someway funded by Israel.
Former U.N. ambassador John Bolton wrote an Op-ed in today's DMN arguing for a preemptive attack on Iran. For a guy who got out of service in Vietnam, he sure does love going to war.
A famous quote from his Yale 25th reunion book, "I confess I had no desire to die in a Southeast Asian rice paddy. I considered the war in Vietnam already lost."
I wish everyone else had been given that option.
In your post about "The Outsiders" you forgot to list the actor who actually received top billing for the film…Ponyboy himself, C. Thomas Howell. Don't you think he's got to be wondering how all those other actors, including Diane Lane, went on to such greater fame than he did? Perhaps it's because he starred in the regrettable film "Soul Man", which I've heard was the real inspiration for The Rachel Dolezal Story…No? Too soon?